Tadeusz Kasprzycki

Tadeusz Kasprzycki (16 January 1891-4 December 1978) was the Minister of Military Affairs of Poland from 1935 to 1939.

Biography
Tadeusz Kasprzycki was born on 16 January 1891 in Warsaw, Russian Empire. He joined the Polish Legion of Austria-Hungary during World War I, and from 1927 to 1931 he was the commander of the Polish 12th Infantry Division. In 1936, Kasprzycki became Minister of Military Affairs of Poland, forming an alliance with France that would prove vital during World War II. From 1939 to 1945 he was imprisoned in Romania after escaping the Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, and he moved to Canada after the war's end; he died there in 1978.